About Phi Beta Sigma

Academic Probation — Spring 2014

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated was founded January 9th, 1914 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. by three collegiate
men, the honorable A. Langston Taylor, the honorable Leonard F. Morse, and the honorable
Charles I. Brown. The organization was founded upon the principals of Brotherhood,
Scholarship, and Service. The Founders deeply wished to create an organization that
viewed itself as "a part of" the general community rather than "apart from" the general
community. They believed that each potential member should be judged by his own merits
rather than his family background or affluence...without regard of race, nationality,
skin tone or texture of hair. They wished and wanted their fraternity to exist as
part of even a greater brotherhood which would be devoted to the "inclusive we" rather
than the "exclusive we." From its inception, the Founders also conceived Phi Beta
Sigma as a mechanism to deliver services to the general community. Rather than gaining
skills to be utilized exclusively for themselves and their immediate families, the
Founders of Phi Beta Sigma held a deep conviction that they should return their newly
acquired skills to the communities from which they had come. This deep conviction
was mirrored in the Fraternity's motto, "Culture For Service and Service For Humanity."